 | Charles Rennie Mackintosh - 2004 - 218 páginas
...without the slightest sense of loss either to its unity or majesty,' and he considered further that, 'It is one of the chief virtues of the Gothic builders,...interfere with the real use and value of what they did.'12 Anyone looking at the Glasgow School of Art can see how closely Mackintosh followed these precepts.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 2013 - 453 páginas
...it without the slightest sense of loss either to its unity or majesty,— subtle and flexible like a fiery serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of...built one ; utterly regardless of any established conventionalities of external appearance, knowing (as indeed it always happened) that such daring interruptions... | |
 | Christopher J. Windolph - 2007 - 213 páginas
...space: Renaissance architecture makes a demand for evenness that Gothic architecture finds unworkable, "and it is one of the chief virtues of the Gothic...interfere with the real use and value of what they did." 1 For all their imbalance, dissymmetry, and grotesquery, Gothic buildings are eminently functional.... | |
 | Francis Skillman Onderdonk - 1908 - 286 páginas
...it without the slightest sense of loss either to its unity or majesty, — subtle and flexible like a fiery serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of the charmer.'" (78) "The Stones of Venice", II-:'):. Courtesy Journal of the American Institute of Architects Fig.... | |
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... whenever it finds occasion for change in its form or purpose, it submits to it without the slightest sense of loss either to its unity or majesty, — subtle and flexible like a fiery serpent, but ever attentive to the voice of the charmer. 
